tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post3627598193308244711..comments2024-02-13T12:50:30.457-05:00Comments on Rants Within the Undead God: Calling All Human Robots: Don’t be Too Introspective at Work!Benjamin Cainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-72274343918930268372018-01-26T13:20:22.781-05:002018-01-26T13:20:22.781-05:00There's a great article by Thomas Metzinger, c...There's a great article by Thomas Metzinger, called "Are we sleepwalking now?" which goes into cognitive scientific details on this question of developing the self through introspection.<br /><br />https://aeon.co/essays/are-you-sleepwalking-now-what-we-know-about-mind-wanderingBenjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-68780346631062619332018-01-21T10:11:54.770-05:002018-01-21T10:11:54.770-05:00That certainly is another example, although I susp...That certainly is another example, although I suspect that's more of a demand than a supply issue. Big companies supply that phony spirituality to attract workers who have prior commitments to it. So maybe the workers should be blamed more than the companies on that one, just as movie goers are primarily to blame for the spate of dumb Hollywood movies, not the movie industry. The industry continues the cycle, but they're making money by fulfilling the broad demand which is necessarily the demand of dummies. To appeal to the broadest possible population, you have to dumb down your content.<br /><br />Did you listen to the Bloggingheads episode with Massimo Pigliucci on how philosophy is going corporate? He makes a similar point about Stoicism (starting especially at the one hour mark).<br /><br />http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/39574?in=56:13Benjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-29862796559629603222018-01-21T05:24:35.495-05:002018-01-21T05:24:35.495-05:00Excellent article, I also see this in these positi...Excellent article, I also see this in these positive attitude programs like Mindfulness that are the craze nowadays, they adopt these Eastern practices like meditation or yoga because of their "supposed" (i'm not saying this is not the case) positive effects, from what ive read companies adopt all of these exercises because of the research on them, and it's much cheaper to have a worker meditate, then to pay a therapist.<br />But while they do this, they ignore the philosophical basis behind these Eastern praticises, because it's like you said, it's pratice over theory, these companies demand results, they want happy and healthy workers who love coming to their job, and not workers who think of life's biggest questions.<br />But a philosophical movement where I see alot of ideas are borrowed from (without understanding the historical context it originated from) is Stoicism.PretensPreachingsnoreply@blogger.com